In a recent piece for the Harvard Business Review, Pat Wadors, Senior Vice President of Global Talent Organization at LinkedIn, argues that storytelling is key to belonging at work. Learn more about the case she makes for belonging. We also include stories on the key to listening well, employee-led learning, a poet-turned CEO, hope and living wisely.
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Should companies help their employees learn? A recent article for the Harvard Business Review argues for lifelong learning in the workplace and offers three tips for cultivating it. We have this, as well as essays on meaningful work, book deserts, storytelling and literary quizzes in our most recent Weekend Reading.
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The past few weeks have offered us a lot to think about, including essays on how supporting parents helps foster noncognitive skills in young children, what makes work meaningful, and the power of poetry and listening. We’ve also included an essay on LeBron James and Homeric epic and a few unusual facts about reading.
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What are you reading this weekend? We’re thinking about the power of metaphor to shape our experience—and even the way we understand ourselves. We’re also enjoying some insightful author interviews; reading six of the best short stories published this year; reflecting on one man’s astonishing feat of memory; and worrying about the loss of humanity in the workplace.
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Looking for something to read this weekend? We are intrigued by recent research on the importance of groups to happy, healthy workplaces. What’s more, we’re celebrating spring with reflections on literary essays and sports, sharing a favorite Books@Work book, and thinking about the relationship between language and our lived experience.
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We’ve combed the Internet—and our bookshelves—for some great reading. This weekend we’re thinking about reading and empathy, first impressions, the relationship between fantasy and reality, and book groups. We’ve included some poetry and book recommendations, too.
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Looking for something to read? We’ve got a Harvard Business Review essay on the benefits of a book club, The New Yorker and T.S. Eliot on why we love mystery novels and a provocative essay that explores empathy and morality in literature and at work—”MFA vs. CIA.”
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Looking for something to read this weekend? Our suggestions on the history and analysis of the Book-of-the-Month Club, a new (and healthier) kind of vending machine, a walk along the Thames, the mathematics of the modernist novel, the key to creative success, and more.
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